How do people with different kinds of psychiatric disabilities fare?
Among the 15,729 persons with psychiatric disabilities whose charges were closed by March 31, 1998, 14 percent of the individuals coded as having “other emotional/psychiatric” impairments received beneficial outcomes; 14 percent having anxiety received beneficial outcomes; 13 percent having manic depression received beneficial outcomes; 13 percent having depression received beneficial outcomes; and 12 percent having schizophrenia received beneficial outcomes. How do people with psychiatric disabilities fare as a result of filing an ADA employment discrimination lawsuit? In most ADA employment discrimination lawsuits that ended in a judgment for the plaintiff (the person who filed the lawsuit) or the defendant (the employer named in the lawsuit), courts have ruled against plaintiffs with psychiatric disabilities. However, the vast majority of lawsuits that are filed do not result in a judgment for either the plaintiff or the defendant. Rather, they end in out-of-court settlements for pl
